by David Todd | May 11, 2009 | ESA, exploration
Oh well, so much for the UK reserve astronaut theory…ESA PR 09-2009. ESA began the search for new astronauts in 2008, calling for applications from talented European citizens who wished to join the European Astronaut Corps to conduct future missions to the...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 8, 2009 | ESA, exploration
The European Space Agency’s Herschel and Planck space telescopes are now to be launched by Arianespace EADS Astrium Ariane 5 on Wednesday 6 MayThe European launch provider made the announcement today. The launch had been delayed a number of times...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | ESA, exploration
The European Space Agency is to shortly announce a delay to the launch of its Herschel and Planck space telescopesAlready delayed to the 14 April and then to the 16th ESA says that this latest delay is “a new short delay but not a fixed date”The delay...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 2, 2009 | Commercial human spaceflight, ESA, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital
In June 2008 Flight reported that the European Space Agency had concluded, after some preliminary data, that suborbital passengers have a smaller carbon footprint than those that travel on airlinersAt the time Flight was told that the data would not be released...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 31, 2009 | ESA, Russia, Soyuz, Spaceport
The mobile gantry for the Samara Space Center Soyuz 2-1a (and eventually 2-1b) rocket’s CNES/European Space Agency spaceport in French Guiana is being constructed in Russia. Once check it is to be dismantled before its trip to South America The image is from the...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 31, 2009 | Apollo, Ares, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, NASA, Space tourism
You can find Flightglobal.com’s news and blog page (or landing page as its known in the jargon) for the 25th National Space Symposium right here. You can create you’re own landing pages for any aerospace topic you want by going to this page and typing into...
